{"id":14138,"date":"2014-07-03T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T00:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14138"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T00:47:01","slug":"cracking-the-top-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/07\/03\/cracking-the-top-2\/","title":{"rendered":"cracking the top 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; who&#8217;s going to make the top 2 in the big Washington State 4th Congressional district race to take over from the retiring Richard &#8220;The Doc&#8221; Hastings?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Republican Establishment pick is Dan Newhouse, so he is expected to get in there.\u00c2\u00a0 The second pick comes down to &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimaherald.com\/photosandvideos\/latestphotos\/2269306-8\/4th-district-hopefuls-in-race-to-the-top\">apparently one of these candidates<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Former professional football player and candidate and &#8220;far righter&#8221; Clint Didier (one of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/2014\/06\/17\/3248923\/clint-didier-campaign-having-gun.html\">those guys<\/a>&#8220;.)<br \/>\nState Senator Jan\u00c3\u00a9a Holmquist, established politician who also happens to be the one woman on the ballot.<br \/>\nKennewick attorney George Cicotte, because of whatever&#8230; he&#8217;s Mormon and from the Tri-Cities, says the article, so that&#8217;s two voting blocs he might gnab.<br \/>\nEstakio Beltran, because he&#8217;s the Democratic Establishment pick.<\/p>\n<p>May I offer a surprise dark horse possibility?\u00c2\u00a0 Gavin Siem.\u00c2\u00a0 For the simple fact that he is the first name on the ballot of 12 candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; who&#8217;s going to make the top 2 in the big Washington State 4th Congressional district race to take over from the retiring Richard &#8220;The Doc&#8221; Hastings? Apparently, the Republican Establishment pick is Dan Newhouse, so he is expected to get in there.\u00c2\u00a0 The second pick comes down to &#8230; apparently one of these candidates&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-hastings-and-the-4th-congressional-district-of-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14139,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14138\/revisions\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}